The timeline of terrestrial evolution holds surprises. While scientists thought complex life required oxygen, a recent ...

Human evolution is often told as a tidy story of adaptation, yet some of our most familiar body parts still defy ...

For all their intelligence and agility, dolphins and orcas carry a secret written deep in their biology: they are, in all ...

Northwestern University biophysicists have developed a new computational tool for identifying gene combinations underlying complex illnesses such as diabetes, cancer, and asthma. Unlike single-gene ...